Periyapatna: In yet another calamity, crops grown in over 50 acres of land were destroyed, when an overflowing ground-level water tank bund breached in the taluk late on Tuesday night. Following heavy rains that lashed the taluk on Tuesday, Hunsekatte and Somanakatte water bodies at Benagalu village overflowed and breached, with water gusting into the…
School compound damaged by drainage works
September 30, 2018Periyapatna: In a bizarre incident, the compound wall of a Government School at Bylakuppe in the taluk collapsed when the soil loosened while constructing an underground drainage just adjacent to the compound. The compound wall of Bylakuppe Government High School was built in 2015-16 at a cost of Rs.7 lakh, with Rajya Sabha Member D….
Columnists deliberate on ‘Uttarakhanda’ novel by Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa
September 30, 2018Mysuru: Priyadarshana Samskruthika Vedike, Srirangapatna had organised a seminar on ‘Uttarakhanda,’ a novel by noted novelist Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa, at Sarada Vilas College Centenary Hall in Krishnamurthypuram here this morning. Inaugurating the programme Dr. Pradhan Gurudath, former Chairman, Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi, Bengaluru contended that every novel of Bhyrappa was an innovative piece where the author…
Tumakuru Corporator murdered
September 30, 2018Tumakuru: In a gruesome murder, Tumakuru Corporator Ravi Kumar was brutally hacked to death by unidentified miscreants near Batawadi on the outskirts of Tumakuru city this morning. Ravi Kumar (48) was having tea at a roadside milk parlour, when a group of seven miscreants, who came in a tempo, threw chilli powder at him and…
Woman robbed of chain
September 30, 2018Mysuru: In the second chain-snatching incident this week, a woman was robbed of her 80 gram gold chain in Nazarbad Police Station limits last evening. Sumathi, 35, wife of Manohar, a resident of Raghavendranagar, was on usual evening walk at a road close to Dr. Rajkumar Road near JSS Layout at about 6 pm, when…
Sandalwood smuggler arrested in Mandya
September 30, 2018Mandya: The Forest Department staff have arrested a person on charges of chopping sandalwood trees and smuggling it in broad daylight at Basavana Betta forest area in Mandya district. The arrested has been identified as Shantharaju, son of Bettaiah and a resident of Gundapura village in Malavalli taluk. DRFO Praveen and staff, who were patrolling…
SWR holds Pension Adalat
September 30, 2018Mysuru: As per the Railway Board directives, South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division conducted Pan India – All India Pension Adalat recently in the Divisional Railway Manager’s Office, Mysuru. Aparna Garg, Divisional Railway…
Kalyan Jewellers launch showroom in New Delhi
September 30, 2018New Delhi: Festivities marked the launch of Kalyan Jewellers flagship showroom in the upmarket South-Extension neighbourhood of New Delhi recently. This is the largest showroom of Kalyan Jewellers in North India. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, the Brand Ambassador for Kalyan Jewellers along with Jaya Bachchan and his daughter, Shweta Bachchan Nanda were present for the…
GST-TDS deduction from Oct.1
September 30, 2018With effect from 1st October 2018, all the Departments or Establishments of the Central Government or State Government or local authority or Governmental agencies or other notified persons, who were deducting TDS under VAT, now shall start deducting TDS under GST at the rate of 1% of CGST and 1% of SGST on such amount…
Ph.D awardees
September 30, 2018Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM) has awarded Ph.D in Environmental Science to M. Bhanu Prakash for his thesis “Adsorption Techniques for the Removal of Dyes from Textile Industry Effluents Using Natural Adsorbents” submitted under the guidance of Dr. S.L. Belagali. T.R. Deepak has been awarded Ph.D in English by the UoM for his thesis…
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